Becker GPS. Love it or hate it?

[lowdrag]

I am in the latter camp here. Just done a 900 mile trip from Spain and it drives me crazy with it's constant chirping. Service station entries and exits, bridges, breakdown and police entries - you name it, it burps. Except when it matters of course. Going downhill to a tunnel in the Pyrenees it didn't burp but just behind the 80 kph sign was a radar and i was about 10 kph over. I am sure to get a 50€ payment through the post. Even more frustrating is that I had updated the system before leaving on holiday. Moreover, it's directional routing leaves a lot to be desired, taking me through an industrial unit to a dead end, taking me up gravel roads to a sewage plant, never having heard of roads where I wanted to go and so on. I am thinking of taking out the unit and using Wase instead, which everyone assures me is superb.

[niva441]

I only had a brief go with one in a loan car. Although it didn't look as good as the Mercedes system, it did include useful information like next direction information on the screen.

[H.7]

lowdrag said:

Just done a 900 mile trip from Spain and it drives me crazy with it's constant chirping. Service station entries and exits, bridges, breakdown and police entries - you name it, it burps.

Pretty sure you can choose which alerts you get. Mine only alerts to 'safety' cameras and danger locations which can never be completely accurate, in my experience. I use a TomTom in another car and it has been known to direct me up a flight of steps in Italy, along a river bed in Spain, and through someone's garden in the UK. It also had EVERY one-way street in Florence mapped the wrong way round It's safety camera database isn't totally accurate either.

[Trabi601]

lowdrag said:

I am in the latter camp here. Just done a 900 mile trip from Spain and it drives me crazy with it's constant chirping. Service station entries and exits, bridges, breakdown and police entries - you name it, it burps. Except when it matters of course. Going downhill to a tunnel in the Pyrenees it didn't burp but just behind the 80 kph sign was a radar and i was about 10 kph over. I am sure to get a 50€ payment through the post. Even more frustrating is that I had updated the system before leaving on holiday. Moreover, it's directional routing leaves a lot to be desired, taking me through an industrial unit to a dead end, taking me up gravel roads to a sewage plant, never having heard of roads where I wanted to go and so on. I am thinking of taking out the unit and using Wase instead, which everyone assures me is superb.

No navigation system is going to be accurate in a tunnel - so it's not a surprise it missed the camera.

With mapping, I find some countries have better coverage than others. When we were in the Czech Republic, our 2016 BMW navigation tried to take us through a working quarry - we followed it, getting increasingly uneasy about where it was taking us, until the road disappeared into a dirt track and was finally gated! Took ages to work out how to get around that.